Is Mixing tortoise species a good idea?
If you are thinking of mixing tortoise species in the same tortoise enclosure you may want to think again? It is never a good idea to mix and match tortoise species or ages of tortoises. This can cause a number of problems. Never mix adult and baby tortoises. The adult tortoise will not understand that you have a baby tortoise in with it. The tortoise will just view it as a smaller tortoise and may harm it by climbing over it or perhaps just taking all the food before the baby tortoise has a chance to eat! Mixing Generations of Tortoises? If one of your tortoises is ill and you are unaware of this it may pass on the disease or parasite to the healthy tortoise. Therefore don’t introduce a new tortoise straight into an established tortoise enclosure. You must keep your new tortoises in quarantine for a few weeks to see that it is not unwell. Once you are sure your new tortoise is healthy you can start to introduce it to the more established enclosure. However, you must supervise this to
